Pattern Recognition Advanced, Kyoto U. (Spring 2013)

SVM, CRF's and Topic Models

Homework 1: due July 10 10:30 AM, either in paper form in the course mailbox or sent to this this email. What is “kernel ridge regression”? Can you use it for binary classification? Describe succintely this tool in 1 page.

Homework 2: due July 17 10:30 AM, either in paper form in the course mailbox or sent to this this email. What is the relationship between logistic regression and maximum entropy models? Summarize this relationship in 1 page. This document and others you may find on the web may be useful.